only You can prevent flash flooding
what is the value in
talking about how many people are going to die
people been dying
where have you been?
people been fighting
starving
crying
laughing
screaming
screaming
screaming
this has to stop
with shushing
shushing
shushing
coming from the cop
no one is coming to save you
good
we’ll save ourselves
we always have
when they were building walls
we were burning bridges
making moats
cracking jokes
& training for a world
we’ve seen before
if you know the lore
you know
it gets darkest
before the dark
there’s no need for overwhelming
hope
nor
despair
power through
even when power trains its sites on
you
what is true is behind brash displays of violence
is vile cowardice
a fear of what’s within
a fear they’ll be seen
as the little boys who wet themselves on the playground pants down bare assed crying while the laughter drowns them out
it’s not deeper than this
there’s no 4D chess
just the right time & place
for boring men
to fall upwards
perhaps in perpetuity
the future isn’t female or fascist
it’s a mixed economy of horseshit
& bullshit
& shit for brains
yes, fascist
but the dumbest version you can’t imagine
Ronald McDonald in a gimp suit
finger on the trigger
fungus-sied up toe on the pulse
as it’s always been
what lessons are there to learn
when nobody can read
what grief can be delayed
if I can unlearn to read
they know not what they do
yet they always do what they do
ignorance is the explanation
& the law of the land
this was how it was always meant to end: never-ending idiocy
just the way it began
you’d be surprised how resilient humans are
when ruled by the frailest among them
the world is flat again
& that won’t stop circumnavigation
& that won’t stop the lessons from the elders
on how to lay low, spread out, Act Up
& shut the hell up
we’re going analog, baby
it’s gonna be great
it’s gonna be hard
it’s gonna be nasty
it’s gonna be focused on what they lack:
love for yourself
love for the other
love for love’s sake
love for the spite that keeps you alive
this isn’t necessarily hope
& it isn’t not necessarily hope
it is what it is:
whatever you make it
let me know when you get home safe